Yakuza 5, Summarized Sarcastically
So, question. What do yakuza dream about? If you never thought about that before, be prepared to think about it a lot now, because it's gonna keep coming up, a lot, in Yakuza 5.
It's 2012 (not 2015, like it was when this game finally came out in the states!), two years after all that nonsense about the commissioner, some rubber bullets, and for some reason, Forehead Mole's ten billion yen from the first game. What happened in 2011 is anybody's guess, but as far as anybody knows, it had nothing to do with zombies or that guy with the really tall face. We begin the game following Chairman Daigo, who feels like crap right now because that cease-fire he had going with the Omi Alliance is probably gonna fall apart really soon (I guess their chairman has cancer or something and that risks wrecking things again). So Daigo's in Fukuoka right now seeking to form alliances with another clan, but it sounds like he's not making a lot of progress there either, so he has his limo pull over and let him out to go for a walk. He immediately hops into a taxi with the single most suspicious looking taxi driver in all of Japan. It turns out this is Kiryu, who somehow got his driver's license photo taken with a hat, sunglasses, and a surgical mask on, like, come on, that is the face of somebody with shit to hide. Daigo seemingly sees right through it, and talks about Work Stuff with him. Kiryu responds to Daigo's plea for advice by kicking him out of the taxi and then going to lunch.
Kiryu, alias "Taichi Suzuki" (the John Smith of the Yakuza world, and I'm pretty sure it's what Saejima called himself last game), is living by himself in Fukuoka because he made a deal with some scary entertainment industry exec. For some reason, Haruka wants to be a pop idol (though it's not clear if this is really her choice), and this intense lady says she can make it happen but only if Kiryu vanishes, because if anybody figures out that Haruka is connected to the former Fourth Chairman of Tokyo's biggest mob, everybody's gonna hate her, because idol fan culture is fucking scary.
After some car washing and a slightly awkward night on the town with his boss at the taxi company, Kiryu is accosted by the Mario Brothers, Aizawa (the big guy) and Morinaga (the gun guy), whose job was to be Daigo's bodyguards last night, before Daigo bailed on them and went for a walk and then a taxi ride. Daigo went missing, apparently, after Kiryu kicked him out of the cab, so clearly he's responsible and the Mario Brothers think he knows something. Kiryu pulls the "I'm a civilian" defense; Morinaga says it doesn't count and they both fight him, and then lose horribly.
At some point Kiryu has a run-in with this guy from Osaka, who says he's a police detective named Serizawa. He smokes a lot and says he knows Kiryu from that little fling he had with the lady detective, like, five games ago. The Detective already knows Daigo's gone, and even has a suspect, which he's entirely too willing to tell Kiryu all about. His suspect is an Omi captain named Watase, and Kiryu certainly knows a few things about Omi captains by now, so he tracks the guy down at a cabaret club, punches the wine bottle out of his hand, and demands some answers from him. Watase is more forthcoming with the info than expected, and explains that the interim chairman over at Tojo HQ is this sleazeball Aoyama, a scheming guy with the second most punchable face in the series.
Aoyama's been passing secrets to Watase, says Watase, but he also has no idea where Daigo went, but Aoyama probably had something to do with it. Kiryu and the Mario Brothers go find Aoyama, who's in town at the Yamagasa Family's headquarters. They have to fight through a whole bunch of goons to get there, and Aoyama shoots their patriarch, Madarame, and blows the place up, hoping to kill Kiryu with the blast. He does not succeed in killing anybody (important) with it.
Kiryu goes home, where his hot next door neighbor Mayumi keeps trying to be domestic with him and cooking him dinner and cleaning up and just generally doing wife stuff without being asked or anything. Past a certain point she just can't take it anymore and just strips naked right in front of him, because somehow this is a man you'd fall madly in love with even though he literally spends his nights sulking and staring at his apartment wall and talks to nobody. Kiryu completely blows off this extremely obvious advance by taking off his work jacket and covering her up with it. Mayumi comes to her senses, kind of, and reveals to him that she's not his neighbor, she's the daughter of Madarame, patriarch of the Yamagasa family, that Daigo was supposed to meet here in Fukuoka before he vanished.
Mayumi takes Kiryu off to see her dad, who's in hospital because Aoyama shot him. Madarame still finds the strength to explain Plot Stuff to him, like that Daigo went into hiding on purpose because of Aoyama, and Aoyama's here in Fukuoka because he's trying to Start Shit with the Yamagasa family. Kiryu then heads off to the docks, where Aoyama and a bunch of Tojo Clan guys are about to do a big ol' clash of armies with captain Yahata and a bunch of Yamagasa guys. Kiryu shows up in the middle of all of this and declares that, to stop the Yamagasa from having to shed any Tojo blood, he's gonna shed some Tojo blood himself. He then dodges between two rocket launchers like a total badass and single-handedly decimates the Tojo crowd. In the wake of this, Aoyama gets totally Jobbed by Watase, and just about when Aoyama's gonna tell everybody who his boss is, Morinaga (the gun guy) shoots him.
It's at this point that Kiryu decides that shit's not going to get straightened out unless he goes back to Kamurocho (again), but about when he's gonna go back, The Cigarette-Smoking Detective shows up tells him that Goro Majima is dead. Kiryu, in a fit of Manly Depression, honks the horn in his taxi for a solid minute.
It is now time for Act Two, in which we get to Be The Other Guy. Or one of them. We find ourselves in the old hand-me-down combat boots of Taiga Saejima, who's sitting at a restaurant with his Good Buddy, Goro Majima, and philosophizes with him about why it is he wants to just go back to jail. He comes up with some metaphor about how tripe needs to be charred really dark in order for the flavor to come out, and whether Majima believes in it or not, he does at least think the tripe tastes good with some extra charcoal content. But yeah, Saejima decides he needs to go back to jail and serve that one year sentence that he got for escaping from his last prison sentence (which turned out to be for a crime he didn't really commit, because he definitely did shoot those 18 guys but it wasn't with real bullets and the dead guys died anyway because somebody else shot them too right afterwards, so I guess that means he still needs to serve time but not on death row). Ahem. Anyway. Saejima's off to Abashiri, up in the frozen north, to serve out what he's really hoping is just a nice, quiet, wintry year in prison.
We get to prison. There, his cell mates are a gentleman burglar, a disgraced cop who took way too many bribes, and some kid named Baba. Saejima gets beaten on a daily basis by fellow prisoner Kugihara, who should be a boss in a Metal Gear game and not a Yakuza game, but he makes a point of never, ever punching Kugihara back, because he wants to get out on good behavior. Kugihara gets frustrated at not getting a reaction out of him, so he decides to frame Baba for an attempted murder. Saejima finally fights back, because Baba doesn't deserve that shit, and while it pisses off the warden a lot, the warden is just like, "dude, FINALLY, what were you thinking?" and lets him off the hook for it. Saejima asks why, and the Warden tells him it's because Goro Majima is dead now and that basically just wrecks the entire reason Saejima wanted this whole thing to begin with. He also tells Saejima, "Hey, if you wanna get out of here again and figure out what happened, now's probably the best time, because we just got in like a hundred some dudes from the Omi Alliance who are probably gonna try to murder you, and me, and probably Baba. And by the way I left the keys in the snowmobile out back."
Saejima, not questioning any of this in the slightest, takes Baba, fights through the hundred some dudes (and Kugihara), and about when somebody shoots the warden upstairs, Saejima and Baba elect to snowmobile the hell outta dodge.
They zoom along in the dark, during a blizzard, for what feels like a few miles, until Saejima loses control, crashes the snowmobile, and then gets into a fist fight with a huge bear (the only boss even close to being as powerful as Saejima). It's a haze of bear punching and snow until Saejima wakes up in some guy's hunting cabin with Baba by his side. They've both been picked up by this grumpy old guy wearing furs, and dragged all the way back to a hunting village in the mountains where it's always Winter and never Christmas. Basically, we're snowed in, so the guys can't take a taxi to Sapporo, and besides, Baba got a fever and the only prescription is more bear bile. (Gross.) Saejima spends an indeterminate amount of time learning how to hunt bears and carry their ick-filled stomachs back home in a rucksack, until Baba's feeling better and the taxi is able to leave again, and there might be some absurd revenge plot against the huge bear from earlier depending on how long Saejima ignores the plot. I mean, it isn't going anywhere, and Christmas won't come until Saejima leaves, anyway.
Saejima and his erstwhile companion Sancho Panza - I mean Baba -- reach Sapporo, where the news is already aware of Saejima's (second) escape from prison, but Saejima's still gonna have to wander around town because his only hope of figuring out what the hell happened to Goro Majima (or rather, who in the hell was strong enough to supposedly kill him) is to try to abduct a local patriarch at the opening of the snow festival. He and Baba do some planning in some abandoned old bar, and Saejima kinda just rolls with the first plan he can think of, which is "wait until shit gets loud, grab the Patriarch and drag him down a manhole in the middle of the audience." It somehow works, because I guess everybody INCLUDING THE SNIPERS is so fixated on the passing fighter jets that nobody sees it happen, and the two manage to spirit Mr. Kitakata away to a random office flat across the street. Baba decides he has to pee or something. Mr. K knows Saejima is wanting to know about Majima's supposed death, and tells him that he helped him fake it. He isn't able to say much more than that before some asshole shoots him through the window, some asshole very quickly being revealed to be Baba.
Saejima chases him through town, at least part of the way while dressed as Santa Claus, and eventually corners him in a blind alley. Baba launches into a great big confession: he was a plant into Saejima's prison intended to get him out, as was the "Majima is dead" thing, apparently. They fight, and while Baba puts up a valiant effort, Saejima piledrivers him into oblivion, and then decides not to kill him because ol' "18 Kills" Saejima never kills anybody. The Cigarette-Smoking Detective shows up and tells him that the answers he's looking for are in Kamurocho, which Saejima decides is enough of a reason to go.
Meanwhile in Osaka, which we haven't seen since Yakuza 2, Haruka is training really hard to be a pop idol, but apparently not hard enough for her dance instructor who's a real hard-ass and gets fired like two minutes later. Haruka is here at Dyna Chair Productions under the tutelage and supervision of Mirei Park, a tough lady who does not give a shit (something in short supply in this series). Haruka is basically going through all of this so she can debut on a big national TV show, Princess League, and win some Cash Money to go towards her orphanage back home. That's basically the whole deal as we see it - Kiryu leaves home to be a taxi driver somewhere else, so Haruka can make it big without getting tied back to the yakuza, so the orphanage won't have to worry about money anymore.
So Haruka engages in a quest to be the Strongest Dancer in Osaka, by getting into street dance battles with other girls, starring on ethically sketchy TV shows, shaking hands with a lot of creepy people, and getting bullied by the pair of bitchy girls that serve as her rivals. The girls, an idol duo named T-Set, are under rival production company Osaka Enterprises, run by a guy named Katsuya who is Absolutely Not A Member Of The Yakuza. Park doesn't look like she likes him very much, but what can they really do about it, she figures.
She does this for a while, with no real obvious connection to the rest of the story. Ms. Park slowly begins to warm up a bit, and then finally spills all of it to Haruka in the back seat of a taxi, about how she wanted to be an idol herself until she got a boyfriend (bad thing to do), got married (also a bad thing to do), got pregnant (worse thing to do), and then tried to abort it (the worst possible thing to do) without telling her husband (holy godfucking shitdamn, lady, what were you thinking). Said husband slapped her over it and left, her idol career was wrecked, and now she can't have kids anymore no matter how hard she tries. Park says she's kinda nervous, because she hadn't seen her husband since then, but suddenly got a letter from him and he wants to meet up again. Park has a bit of a bonding moment with Haruka and hands her a fancy fountain pen that she says was really special to her, and things actually seem like they're going to get genuinely heartwarming, especially for a Yakuza game.
And then Park falls off a rooftop and dies.
Enter Shun Akiyama, who somehow has a Sky Finance branch in Osaka now (though it's only barely put together), and has Absolutely Not, In Any Way, been keeping tabs on Haruka from a distance. He shows up, tells Haruka to just keep doing her thing and dancing for the TV and all that, while he figures out who could have killed the boss lady (because it definitely wasn't suicide, despite there being a note), and probably has some crazy crime shit happen to him while she's just dancing and singing on TV.
Akiyama's pretty sure Park's suicide note was a forgery, and eventually figures out Katsuya ordered it. In the process, he also finds the guy who shoved Park off the roof (by accident...somehow? how long did that suicide note take to put together, anyway?): Haruka's asshole dance instructor, who was trying to get the letter that her husband wrote her, because her husband was - are you sitting down? - Goro Fucking Majima, which Haruka finds proof of by raiding Park's office and unlocking her fancy safe using that fountain pen from earlier: a photo of Majima, Park, and Katsuya.
And then some huge guy named Kanai, who works for Katsuya's company, kills the dance instructor by cutting off one of his arms. Holy shit.
Akiyama fends off Kanai, and Haruka wins Princess League and earns the right to perform in a major concert in Tokyo. She heads off, with Akiyama in tow.
Meanwhile in Nagoya, in the late 90s, we're watching baseball. Tatsuo Shinada, a man of Considerable Beefiness, gets his first at-bat in a promising career, and smacks a game-winning home run for his team, the Wyverns. He is then immediately fingered for cheating and banned from baseball for life, in a big ol' scandal that threatens the sanctity of a national pastime.
A bunch of years later, Shinada is vastly behind on his rent, constantly broke, and makes just the tiniest bit of living by writing articles for an adult entertainment magazine because nobody else is gonna hire him for some reason. He owes money to basically everybody in town, especially this loan shark named Takasugi who follows him around and frequently suggests that he go "accidentally" lose a couple of fingers in a metal press and claim the workers-comp payout. His life's kind of in a lot of kinds of shambles, basically, but somehow he's never lost his love for baseball, even though the league will never let him play ever again.
He's sitting there in his one-room shipping crate of an apartment, when some guy in a mask, sunglasses, and fedora shows up and wants to know what really happened back in the 90s. Figure this out for me, he says, and I'll pay off your debt. Shinada needs little convincing. He takes to the streets and starts asking questions - the wrong questions, of the wrong kinds of people - and starts noticing little "accidents" happening around him and killing the people he's trying to talk to, and especially his old teammates from back in the day. Takasugi figures he might as well help, because Shinada's debts are basically all with him anyway, and if they're gonna get paid, then he's getting paid, and none of that's gonna happen if Shinada's dead, so he chimes in from time to time with a fire extinguisher like a total badass.
The pair start tugging at some threads and figure out that literally everybody in town is operating under a "yakuza" group called the Nagoya Family, and it was their influence that got Shinada banned. But of course, the goal wasn't to ban this one guy who had no career and played for exactly one inning professionally. No, baseball in Nagoya was in a shitty spot in the 90s, because the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance were both hanging around constantly and trying to fix games and generally just making a big ol' Problem out of the entire sport. The locals got tired of it, banded together, and using Shinada as an unwitting scapegoat, prompted a big-ass Police Investigation in town, outing the Tojo and Omi influences on the games, and getting them all run out of town. Of course, now Shinada knows too much, and the Nagoya Family - whose "chairman" is the manager of the baseball team Shinada (briefly) played for - need to get rid of him. Shinada instead convinces the Family to go turn themselves in.
Shinada meets back up with the Weird Masked Guy in his apartment, who turns out to be Chairman Daigo, who used to go to the same high school as Shinada. Daigo hands him the 20 million yen for solving the case, but Shinada's not really all that thrilled to learn Daigo grew up to lead the yakuza, and punches him out the door. The two punch each other for a while until Shinada wins and declares that, if he's gonna retake his dream of being a Pro Baller, he's gonna do it his own damn self, not with help from the yakuza. Regardless, after Shinada goes and has a heartfelt moment at the baseball field and smacks a fastball really hard (from his old high school rival that he never had the chance to face off against professionally), he and Daigo head off to Tokyo, because that's apparently where everybody else has been going today.
And now it's time for all of these plot trains to all try to enter the station at once, and crash into each other.
Firstly, Kiryu shows up back in Kamurocho, and it doesn't take long for him to realize he's being followed. His tail is Baba, who fights him, and is summarily Owned because nobody's gonna tail Kiryu and remain unpunched. He then drags Baba to New Serena, learns who he is, and then also learns a bunch of stuff from him about how Baba has basically been playing all sides against each other under Somebody's orders. He is not able to say who that Somebody is, because Morinaga (the gun guy) was the one passing him the orders, and Morinaga was also the one supposedly trying to draw Kiryu back to Tokyo. Kiryu blatantly ignores all warnings and must go learn the truth first hand, because Kiryu must know all things first hand. That is why we love him.
Now Saejima is here alongside That Detective, who tells him some stuff about what's been going on in town. He says some Omi leader called Katsuya has been bringing his men into Tokyo undercover for a while now and suggests he's the one behind All This Crap, but he needs to go pursue some leads himself, and tells Saejima to go see if he can figure out where Morinaga (the gun guy) went, because nobody's seen him for a while. Saejima does so by going off to ask everybody's favorite plot-token-dealer, The Florist of Sai, who says he knows where Morinaga is, and will tell Saejima if Saejima goes and fights in the coliseum again (which was such a riotous hit last game). His opponent is Aizawa (the big guy from the Mario Brothers), which Saejima manages to beat, and both of them now get to know what happened to Morinaga. Morinaga's whereabouts turn out to be "six feet under," because Morinaga is dead, and has been for a few days.
Meanwhile, Akiyama has just gotten into town himself. He's asked by both Katsuya and for some reason Shinada to have Haruka's big Tokyo Dome concert canceled, because there's going to be some kind of attack and somebody's life is in danger. Katsuya tells them that Haruka's concert was going to be with T-Set, as the supergroup Dreamline, because he and Ms. Park were working really hard on this for a really long time, but shit's about to get really dangerous and multiple peoples' biggest dreams are on the line. Dreamline. Ha. Ha ha. Katsuya really badly wants the concert to be canceled, but for some reason this requires Akiyama to sign off on it as well (since Park is dead). He does not. The concert will have to happen, because DREEEEAAAMMMMMS.
Kiryu finds out that Katsuya is in town and is bringing some Omi people in. The Florist, meanwhile, is pretty sure Katsuya killed Morinaga, so Saejima goes after him too. Watase, the Omi captain from Kiryu's chapter, is also here to face Katsuya because bringing a bunch of Omi people to Tokyo is a Bad Move. All three of them end up in Katsuya's hotel room (which, a while ago, we did get to watch him doing naked push-ups in, for some reason). Katsuya immediately tells them all that he lured them here on purpose, because Somebody wants them all to kill each other, so hey, let's all head up to the rooftop of the tallest building in town and just kinda *pretend* to kill each other and we can see who's really behind all of this stuff this year. So they do. They head up to the roof of Kamurocho Hills and smack each other around a lot until everybody's tired as shit, and then the Real Mastermind shows up and tries to shoot Kiryu and Saejima - and it's That Detective again, except it turns out he's not even a detective, he's Kurosawa, the Chairman of the Omi Alliance, and he's been playing literally everybody in the game.
Kurosawa, who is never not smoking this entire game (handily explaining why he's dying of cancer, I guess), tells everybody on the roof that he hates Strong, Charismatic Yakuza, and that he's going to get rid of everybody like that out of both clans so that only the chessmasters who know how to Make Money are left. He's about to off Watase, but Katsuya takes the bullet instead. About this time, Daigo shows up and stops Kurosawa, and gives him the ultimatum (i.e. kill yourself so I won't have to do it), but then Kanai shows up and shoots Daigo. The two Baddies leave, but not before warning Kiryu that something nasty's gonna happen to Haruka.
Something nasty does happen to Haruka: She has to talk to Baba. Baba shows up and tells her, from Kiryu, not to give up. She joins forces with the girls from T-Set and forms Voltron - I mean Dreamline - and continues rehearsing (and ceases to be a playable character from this point on).
Over at New Serena, every other playable character convenes to discuss what's happening. Our old buddy Date is tending bar, so everybody discusses stuff with him about how Chairman Kurosawa is already here, has already had Daigo shot, has basically got his rivals in the Omi (Katsuya and Watase) against a wall, and is basically going to keep that momentum going and take over Tokyo since Daigo's kind of not around and his interim chairman turned out to be a bastard (and is dead anyway). They figure Kurosawa is planning an attack on Haruka's concert, for some reason, so they send Shinada to the Tokyo Dome, because he says he knows the place from back in his professional baseballing days (all one of them). Further strategizing is interrupted by a newscast coming in about how "an unknown group" have taken over Majima's office at Millennium Tower and taken Majima himself hostage, which The Boys decide must be Kurosawa's doing. Date goes to Tokyo Dome to set up a police presence just in case, and the rest of the guys run off to Millennium Tower, because imagine that, all that time deciding to go pretend to kill each other on a rooftop, and they picked the wrong rooftop. Saejima goes in particular, because - and I quote - "now that I know my brother's still alive, I'm gonna go punch him in the face."
Saejima comes up to the Tower to find Team Kurosawa there, with Majima bound up in an extremely unnecessary amount of chains (for only his second on-screen role this game). Kurosawa says he's got a sniper hidden in Tokyo Dome, pointing right at Haruka, and shows Saejima the view through the scope on a Twitch stream. He says that Saejima and Majima have to fight on the roof while he films it, or he gives the order to shoot Haruka. So they fight, a lot, while Haruka performs in front of a crapton of people.
Meanwhile at Tokyo Dome, our sniper, Baba, is starting to have second thoughts about murdering a literal 15-year-old. Right as he sets down his rifle, Shinada shows up and says he should set down his rifle. Even though he's already decided not to murder a literal 15-year-old, Shinada decides Baba still needs to atone for it and fights him, and wins. Baba is now at the lowest point in his life, and is about to shoot himself, when a whole bunch of other guys show up: his cellmates from Abashiri, the gentleman burglar, the disgraced bribe-taking cop, and the warden who isn't dead even though somebody shot him. One of them explains that Saejima found the tine to call them and tell them that something was up about Baba and that maybe they could talk some sense into him about working for Chairman Kurosawa, which they do, and Baba decides to go back to jail to get charred black like a lump of tripe. Or something. Good God, that sounds nasty out of context.
Shinada sees all this happening and he's all like, "aww, why doesn't anybody do that for me, I don't have friends, I'm broke!" when he gets a phone call from his loan shark, Takasugi, who says that a bunch of the people back in Nagoya do actually like him (especially his favorite soapland attendant, Milky, for whom he is probably her biggest customer AND I SHIP IT SO THERE) and want him to please come back home. Shinada agrees, and leaves the series forever.
The Jimas, who were still fighting on the roof while this was going on, saw the whole thing with Baba through that iPad that Kurosawa had set up, and decide they can stop fighting since Baba isn't going to listen anymore. Chairman Kurosawa hates every bit of this, and because he's lost his one bargaining chip against Kiryu (who really doesn't need any bargaining chips against him, but that's neither here nor there), he decides the Jimas don't need to live anymore either and has his posse kill them. Except here comes Chairman Daigo, along with Katsuya, who both promptly hose down the posse with their Cutscene Guns. This is about when Kurosawa should surrender and/or die, except he doesn't - he's got one more thing left to pull.
A call gets sent down to street level to Kiryu and Akiyama, who are busy fighting hordes of Kurosawa's Omi dudes. Kurosawa says he's still got hundreds more dudes on the way to take Kamurocho, and another bunch of dudes on the way to Tojo HQ to go kill everybody in charge so he can take over For Real This Time. Kiryu leaves the hordes in Akiyama's capable hands - well, feet - and zips over to Tojo HQ. Akiyama runs into Big Guy Kanai again, and kicks his ass (literally). Kanai claims it's Not Over Yet, because Kurosawa's Most Loyal Guys are coming to relieve them. Except the guys that actually show up are Watase and his guys, Yamagasa's guys from Fukuoka, and Kitakata's guys from Sapporo (since Kitakata didn't die from Baba shooting him through a window the other day, proving that Cutscene Guns are not infallible). Kurosawa's Most Loyal Guys are already beaten, and Kurosawa himself sits there on top of the Tower he's like, man, I hate all you strong, powerful, charismatic yakuza. He does, of course, have Just One More Thing, again: his son.
"Wait, he has a son?" everybody collectively asks, and then we smash cut to Kiryu at Tojo HQ, where there's basically nobody (still alive and/or conscious) around except for one guy: Aizawa, wearing Kiryu's suit. Aizawa's here because he's Kurosawa's kid, somehow, and while he doesn't really give a shit about Dad's whole plan to overthrow the clans and leave them to him, he's still gonna fight Kiryu to the death to become the new dragon. The fight takes them both around the entire HQ and lasts for fucking ever, and is tiring enough that even This Narrator was tired of it by the time it ended. Aizawa goes down in possibly the single hardest final boss in the series, and Kiryu is in pretty bad shape for it.
Back at Tokyo Dome, Haruka's done with her concert with T-Set, but has a few final words for her audience. She says she loves that she finally got to be a famous singer, and she had fun the entire time, but if this life means that she can't see her Famous But Also Infamous Uncle Kaz anymore, this isn't the life for her, in a speech that will absolutely not end badly for her in the next canon game she's present for. Then she runs off into the snow, and miraculously runs into Kiryu, who is bleeding pretty badly, and in the only time these two get to spend on screen together for the entire story mode, the game ends on a tear-jerker. At least until two or three more games from now, when we finally pick up where we left off in 2018...
